Celebration of Culture

     Haiti is a very religious country. The primary religion is the Catholicism, also the Protestant is one of the most popular religion in the Haiti. This land is especially known for their weird practice of voodoo or how what they call it "serving to Iwa". One important thing that we have to know is that the followres of voodoo are active members of the catholic church.

     The most important celebration in the Haitian culture take place at the beginning of the religios season of the Lent, Carnival is the most popular and active festival, featuring secular music, parades, dancing in the streets, and abundant consumption of alcohol. Other festivals are: Independence Day (1 January), Bois Cayman Day (14 August, celebrating a legendary ceremony at which slaves plotted the revolution in 1791), Flag Day (18 May), and the assassination of Dessalines, the first ruler of independent Haiti (17 October).

    In the topic of arts Haiti is not so advanced because of the bankrupt of the governmet, but eventough they didn't have finance support sometimes governmet gave incentives to create more masterpieces. All the haitian literature and historical papers are written in French. We can say that this culture is very smart because they can speak in French, Creole and many of them in English. Also another important fact is that the indians who lived their were Taino indians. The music is a way of expressing in Haiti and very important. The music is tropical and very varied.

     Here is a video of Haiti Carnival:



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